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541.
by problems 10y ago
They're probably making way more than $10-20 on that thing - you can buy wifi capable dev boards for $10 out of China. If you're producing in bulk, you can probably build that even cheaper. The marginal cost to make more units is
542.
by problems 10y ago
I've had this experience with Monoprice and a few AliExpress sellers at least. "Oh, it doesn't work? Meh, all yours, have a good one" is a very good way to make customers come back. It's ripe for abuse, so I'm
543.
by problems 10y ago
Haha, yeah, I was actually sort of looking forward to the fallout from an MMS worm, brings back the good ol' days of Blaster and Sasser. Might have beat Android updates into shape too. Unfortunately that dream never came to light.
544.
by problems 10y ago
Wouldn't you expect vector text to look better? Sharper. Like going from text at 100 DPI to 300 DPI. Is it a precision issue with controlling the beam?
545.
by problems 10y ago
They wouldn't have had an issue here if they'd just kept this quiet and via direct support email instead of in public. It's not like he was being abusive to an individual support staff member, he cussed about the app in an Am
546.
by problems 10y ago
If say, Spotify used a vulnerable audio decoder (or called into an OS one that was vulnerable), it could be used by an attacker to deploy an exploit against your device. Now - is that very likely? Probably not, even if such a vulnerability
547.
by problems 10y ago
No one plays CoD for the single player. Spectacle isn't the focus, multiplayer is. The whole genre of linear single player FPSes is sort of dead. Lots of mixed genre games that tie in RPG elements with big open worlds and character cus
548.
by problems 10y ago
> I've heard it colloquially, but I highly doubt anyone was scanning IP address ranges so often that you could be passively attacked on the internet without any interaction by two minutes in. I witnessed this myself back in the day.
549.
by problems 10y ago
I can understand a variety of cash usages over credit for fee savings, privacy and getting around transaction limits. But I can't understand why anyone would use a check cashing place. Can you not get a bank account for free in the US?
550.
by problems 10y ago
I thought most phones had IR filters these days and that this wouldn't work? Am I incorrect here?
551.
by problems 10y ago
If it were so trivial it probably would have already happened. There's tons of cash to be made in SMS and MMS spam. It's not trivial - there's a lot of devices and exploiting mitigation techniques to deal with, there's n
552.
by problems 10y ago
So... where is it? There clearly hasn't been any major deployment of this - especially at the scale of Blaster or Conficker. It's "trivial" perhaps for a single device but every device is different and it'd require
553.
by problems 10y ago
> The hard part this time is all the closed source drivers. How did Linux solve that back in the 90s? It never did perfectly. It's about the same as it is on Android currently. All the basic stuff works but you need proprietary firm
554.
by problems 10y ago
> perhaps now is the time for us to begin holding Google to the same standard we applied to Microsoft a decade ago. The triggering factor for this was the worms though. No such similar thing exists in the Android space.
555.
by problems 10y ago
I completely agree - that's why I encourage only sticking to basic questions and accepting fairly vague answers as long as they're in the right direction. Maybe your python knowledge isn't perfect, but you know how to solve i
556.
by problems 10y ago
> Why would I be expected to write a merge sort when there are libraries for that? That's silly. Definitely, work samples are better, for sure and there are other puzzles on there that are probably more appropriate for a simple chal
557.
by problems 10y ago
Yes, you're expected to be able to write basic stuff like most of these challenges without Google or StackOverflow. There are some however here that you really shouldn't be, like remembering specific algorithms - if you're ju
558.
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, its one thing to say victim blaming about something that's difficult or expensive (monetarily, freedom or time) - it's quite another to use it to discourage individual defense.
559.
by problems 10y ago
> My city publicly lists assessing information if you own property. Many do. People tend not to just browse city property listings for fun. So why were they able to get to that stage - did they have your name? Why? What did you do to pis
560.
by problems 10y ago
I do it myself. It's completely possible. Get a PO box or pay a corporate privacy company to forward your mail. Depends how you operate though I suppose. Unless you're running a physical business from your house you probably don&#
561.
by problems 10y ago
> We made Nigerian scams illegal. We defend against them partly by prosecuting them. We work hard to reduce the frequency and the impact of them. And guess what? They still happen. We already have the laws to attack the kind of "tro
562.
by problems 10y ago
You're as much a victim here as someone who downloads a tiny executable off a filesharing network and thinks it's the latest movie or game. Or falls for a Nigerian scam. These are accepted facts of the internet. We defend against
563.
by problems 10y ago
Why was that information available on the internet? That's the kind of risk you take if you make that kind of information available on the internet. Think of all the possible things someone could do with your address and assume those w
564.
by problems 10y ago
I think this actually explains a lot of what's considered "trolling" when it comes to political topics. Many individuals stretching the truth for their side just a little bit adds up to a warped picture in total and gets bl
565.
by problems 10y ago
See, this is the problem. Don't blame it on "trolls", analyze where you screwed up and how you could have defended yourself better so you know what to do next time. Then open up shop under a different alias. If you're no
566.
by problems 10y ago
> In my experience the vast majority of people are trustworthy. Sure, but in quantity there will always be some people - even some of those normal, trustworthy people who feel particularly strongly about something and decide to go on t
567.
by problems 10y ago
I hate this attitude of "blame everything on the trolls". You can't use your real name on the internet because using your real name on the internet is basically asking for trouble. You have to defend yourself in the same way
568.
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, Windows support is better than Linux for it, but it's still pretty iffy. While IE and a few other things do, even stuff like Windows Explorer and OneNote doesn't handle multi-DPI well or even just runtime DPI changes in gene
569.
by problems 10y ago
You're right, but even many builtin Microsoft apps - while they supported DPI scaling - did not support multi-DPI switching and rather than scaling properly just scaled pixels and looked blurry. It's "not Windows fault"
570.
by problems 10y ago
DPI scaling yes, but not multi-DPI, when dragging from a 100 DPI monitor to a 300 DPI one text should remain sharp and not blurred by scaling pixels. Or even vice versa.

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